i love you poems

The Bible may be the truth but it's not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. ~Samuel Butler



Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history. ~P.J. O'Rourke



If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine. ~Michael Jay Tucker



Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Fish and visitors smell in three days. ~Benjamin Franklin



Consider the man on horseback, and I have been a man on horseback for most of my life. Well, mostly he is a good man, but there is a change in him as soon as he mounts. Every man on horseback is an arrogant man, however gentle he may be on foot. The man in the automobile is one thousand times as dangerous. I tell you, it will engender absolute selfishness in mankind if the driving of automobiles becomes common. It will breed violence on a scale never seen before. It will mark the end of the family as we know it, the three or four generations living happily in one home. It will destroy the sense of neighborhood and the true sense of Nation. It will create giantized cankers of cities, false opulence of suburbs, ruinized countryside, and unhealthy conglomerations of specialized farming and manufacturing. It will make every man a tyrant. ~R.A. Lafferty, "Interurban Queen," 1970, a short story set in the late 1800s (Thanks, Sam!)



It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others. ~Helen Rowland, Violets and Vinegar



It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince



One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. ~Evelyn Waugh



Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605



When you possess light within, you see it externally. ~Anais Nin



War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. ~Benjamin Disraeli



I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger. ~Muhammad Ali, 1967, refusing to fight in Vietnam



Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. ~Walt Whitman



Only Americans can hurt America. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower



A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds! ~Dave Beard



Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. ~Author Unknown



There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles. ~Author Unknown



A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization. ~Author Unknown



The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~Author Unknown